In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

Classic rock radio has a tendency to play the same songs over and over again, effectively ruining them for years to come. Here are three overplayed songs that I can’t stand, plus three that I wish had ...

The history of rock and roll is filled with so many incredible songs from fantastic artists from all over the world. It is ...

As it turns out, Richard Goodall was a star in his own right long before his Season 19 triumph on America's Got Talent. Throughout this past season, the school-janitor-turned-singing-sensation ...

Rock and roll was in full swing in 1961, and there were so many songs that climbed the charts that very year. While the genre itself might feel a bit dated to modern audiences, I think there’s ...

In The Endless Refrain (Melville House, Nov.), journalist David Rowell explores how legacy acts are strangling new music. Can you explain the current nostalgia in pop and rock music? Some people in ...

Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas in the early ’40s. He and little brother Edgar would often catch blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and B.B. King on the Chitlin Circuit’s ...